Through stained glass

Rock. Isaac Sutherland, her father, had been knowing in horse-flesh, and would have looked askance on the Reverend Orme Leighton as a suitor had he not also been knowing in men. The truth was t

rland learned to his cost that the Reverend Orme could discern through the back of his

a far country, unbuoyed by the Reverend Orme's dreams of a new state, but seeking with an inward fervidness s

came into her darkness. He was named Shenton. Mammy's broad, homesick face broke into an undying smile. "Sho is mo' lak ole times, Mis' Ann, havin' a young Marster

, now empty, that echoed once to the cries a

tless Leighton paused in his stride to gaze through fiery, but gloomy, eyes upon his fair-haired baby daughter and his son, pale, crowned with dark curls, and crie

the reception of one who was to come to them from under the shadow of a family

nd his wife had come to the great decision, by the children. The children knew nothing of the great decision nor did they know the so

xcitement at Consolation Cottage. To Natalie and to Shenton, the sudden arrival of an entirely new brother, not in swaddling-clothes, but handed down read

er," shouted Shenton, "they're coming!" Little Natalie clambered in stumbling haste up the steps a

will Lewis say to that? Come, Shenton, give mother your hand." Slow

to meet them. He kissed his wife and

ied, "didn't y

d say I did. Here,

om the shadows of the cab. Grave eyes passed fearlessly over the gro

nig

t of welcome. Mammy's genial face assumed a terrible scowl, h

ay, yo' young Marst

was swept from the cab into Mrs. Leighton's arms, and Mammy, grinning fr

' mammy 'bad niggah,'

ah!' Did yo' hea

, Mother," and "Muvver, oh, please!" Mrs. Leighton set Lewis o

lmost of a size, but to Natalie he towered an inch above her. She held up her lips, and he kissed t

is wumpled

home," declared